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Dr Alan van Tran and Minh Ha Tran Indigenous Health Education Bursary It’s been ten years since UQ alumnus Dr Alan van Tran (Doctor of Medicine, ’83) and his wife, Minh Ha Tran, established a scholarship supporting Indigenous medical students at UQ – a decision forged during Dr Tran’s three decades as a GP in…

With an unexpected gift in their wills left to The University of Queensland, Maryborough locals Alfred and Olivea Wynne – known for their contributions to the town’s business, music and community – created a legacy for themselves that would span generations of students. Despite no known connection to UQ, in the late 1960s, the Wynnes…

University of Queensland researchers have discovered a new ‘seeding’ process in brain cells that could be a cause of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. UQ’s Queensland Brain Institute dementia researcher Professor Jürgen Götz said the study revealed that tangled neurons, a hallmark sign of dementia, form in part by a cellular process that has gone astray and allows…

More than 690 million celestial objects have been catalogued, photographed and are now available online for exploration by the public, thanks to an international research collaboration. In a collaboration including The University of Queensland, The Australian National University and researchers from around Australia, the Dark Energy Survey (DES) has released its second set of data,…

Meet the UQ graduate behind the first COVID-19 home diagnostic tool Dr Sean Parsons saw firsthand the huge impact of a pandemic when he was only a few years out of UQ and working as a young doctor in the emergency department of Caboolture Hospital. What he saw on the frontline in 2009 was a…

Optics researchers from The University of Queensland and Nokia Bell Labs in the US have developed a new technique to demonstrate the time reversal of optical waves, which could transform the fields of advanced biomedical imaging and telecommunications. Time reversal of waves in physics doesn’t mean travelling back to the future; it describes a special type of wave which…